Visual Effects Techniques
Adjust color, texture and image transformations to create a specific effect.
Color Grading
Coordinate brightness, contrast and color relationships to give footage a consistent, purposeful visual atmosphere.
Desaturation
Reduce color intensity so that tone, texture or a small amount of retained color can take greater visual priority.
Sepia Tone
Use a warm brown, near-monochrome image to evoke memory or history, while relying on the setting to support a sense of period.
Film Grain
Fine grain that changes over time adds texture and a sense of photographic material to an image.
Bokeh
Let out-of-focus lights become soft shapes influenced by the lens and aperture, adding a background layer without becoming the subject.
Forced Perspective
Use distance and alignment within the frame to make objects of different sizes or at different depths appear to have another scale relationship.
Lens Distortion
Lens projection can bend straight lines or stretch edges, changing the sense of space; distinguish this from perspective exaggeration at close range.
Morphing / Dissolve Effect
Morphing continuously transforms one shape into another; a dissolve overlaps two images. The source combines the names, but the operations are distinct.